Priceless. I caught a girl looking in the general direction of the camera, so I centered it on her. She turned around and started walking away, so I panned the camera to follow her. Sure made her hurry up!
No no, no indoctrination here. I don't hand out underages, it's not my job. If a cop asks me if I carded people at a party, I say no, I'm not law enforcement. Hell, the only way I'll bust up a party is if bottles are getting winged off a balcony or other ridiculous stuff like that.
Now, walking 20 deep across the parking lot all carrying beers? I'm going to tell you chug or dump, because otherwise, the undercover liquor control guys are going to join your group, follow you to the party, and then fry everyone with open container, underage drinking, and unlicensed sales if they're charging. It's not my job to enforce liquor laws, but walking around with an open container gives the cops REAL good probable cause to walk into the party.
And don't think all the RAs act as if they're in an "elite group" - I spend my nights on duty hitting up anything going on in the buildings I'm in charge of just to make sure that the RESIDENTS are happy - most of MY problem is random townies and dorm kids coming up and trashing the place. Now, the reason that law is there probably isn't to protect you, but walking with a backpack full of beer to a party is a damn sight better than walking with an open bottle and chugging on it as you walk!
Sounds like my campus. I'm an RA in this mess, but:
Relations are so good with the town that the Beloit police department spends all night "patrolling" "town property" (aka the one public road that goes through the residential section) and ticketing people for anything they possibly can. I was never ticketed, but half my dorm had been ticketed for "open container of alcohol" because they crossed the street from one dorm to another with a can of beer.
So don't violate the open container law! What's the BEST way to let the cops know where everyone is underage drinking? Oh, yeah, walking in there 20 deep with open cans of beer. That law is there to protect you. If a bunch of kids walk in with backpacks full of beer on, a cop can't come up and bust your "study party" - but he sure is gonna take a visit if you walked in open beer and all!
It's fuckin' freshman move in day... and I'm on duty.
Dude, you think you could sling code with all them titties dancin' in your face all day? I mean, one or two pairs of bouncing boobies is OK, but once you start adding "pasties and leather" to the block list, it's just going to be impossible. For me, anyway. What were we talking about? brb, yo.
Not necessarily. My grandmother still gets the phone bill in my grandfather's name, and my grandfather is still listed in the phonebook. I've never met the man - he was dead 20 years before I was born, and I'm 21 years old.
There is a word for what AT&T is part of, and it's called an oligopoly. Very few large players control the market. I cannot go out, buy some antennas, a tower, and a telephone switch and start providing cellular service because, well, for one, the price of the licenses, and for two, the fact that there's only 7 of them. There are 2 900MHz licenses per zone, and one of them originally went automatically to the landline provider. IIRC, there's only 5 PCS (1900MHz) licenses per zone. In my zone, Cingular has licenses in both 900MHz and 1900MHz.
And if we're going to use your terminology for monopoly, Microsoft is not one either. They control most of the market, but there are other viable options.
If Verizon, Sprint/Nextel, and AT&T decided tomorrow that cellular service cost $1 per minute, what would anyone be able to do about it? Use Edge Wireless, use Alltel? Some other local provider? Yeah, right. If the big three decided to do that, they'd also decide all the little guys couldn't roam on their networks (Ask T-Mobile how that agreement with Cingular worked out!)
Man, as a motorcyclist, and as the son of another bike rider who was almost killed by a drunk driver, I agree with a lot of what you said. However, I think the GPP is right in calling out the DUI system.
I'm 21, 152 lbs. According to the BAC charts, and a commercial, non-court-admissible breathalyzer, my legal driving limit is about 4 beers. At that point, I probably can detect the fact that I have consumed alcohol, but the effects would not be much more. I do believe that "Impairment Begins at the First Drink", but an 8 hour work day would be more impairment than 4 beers.
So who here thinks that the US 0.08 limit is even accurate for "drunk driving"
According to the weight charts, if I drink 4 beers in an hour, I'm over the limit. Sorry, but 4 beers doesn't make me drunk or even really buzzed. If they decide I'm drunk, it should be because I can't walk a straight line or because I can't stand on one leg for more than 10 seconds or so, not because some percentage of the population that weighs 150 can't drive after less than a 6 pack!
I mean above water. Below water, your body's "diving reflex" kicks in, lowering your metabolism and hence, oxygen usage. So even though you can hold your breath for 4 minutes while diving, you probably wouldn't be able to do it as long above water doing something that burned a similar amount of energy.
Ah yes, most people can hold their breath for longer than 15 seconds - under water. The human body has a reflex that puts the body in energy-saving mode when submerged. How long can you just plain hold your breath?
I'm a Human Development major. At my school, out of a few hundred in the major, I'm one of probably 5 guys.
There's a reason for all the girls in psych - you wanna work with crazy little kids all day? Didn't think so. (I'm going to work with the kids who shoot at each other while shooting up with the other hand. No crazies for me.) Oh, and not only that, but people ALREADY don't like social workers taking their kids, but a female social worker is a little less likely to get socked in the face by the abusive father!
Funny thing about radios with channels blocked - US scanners skip over the 900MHz portion of the spectrum that used to carry AMPS cell service. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to change em back! =)
Don't underestimate the car company's efforts to limit us! Of course, limiting a person's understanding of a machine in which even the smallest parts can been seen and manipulated by a person without the need of a SEM is a little bit harder, and government mandates make sure that there is at least a standard method to getting diagnostic info from the engine computer, car companies such as BMW sign the software in ROM, and design the CPU/microcontroller to not run unsigned code or fuel mappings. I don't know how it works, but you would need something that had the same effect as an xbox modchip.
Other manufacturers don't have the same protection, and even if they do, there is an open source design available, called MegaSquirt. (And that's the second time I got to throw that in there this week! No, I don't use it. Ford's EEC-V is pretty well understood and works fine:P
I bought a 30" Sanyo HT30746 HDTV for $450. It upconverts all inputs to 1080i, and accepts any input from NTSC on up. In order to hook up my cable box, I plugged an HDMI cable into one end of the cable box, the other into the television, and then ran an optical cable from the AUDIO OUT on the television to my surround amp. The cable box transmits the picture ratio too, so all I do is turn the television on and turn the input to HDMI. I don't need to say widescreen/normal pillarbox/stretched or any of that.
It is, however, a CRT: The geometry is not perfect, and if you adjust it to perfect, something moves the earth's magnetic belts or something and throws it back out (2mm trapezoid from top left to tom right). It's also kinda huge, but not really any bigger than a DLP.
Your an IT guide by trade, and you don't find OBD-II to be a huge benefit?
Well, with a decent scanner, anyway. =) My old man can't ever figure out what's wrong on a newer car, but 20 minutes and a scanner usually suffice, even without a CEL!
You're right, it's never going to end, and I wouldn't say I'm never a part in the shenanigans. But you know what my school's response is to someone getting busted for a keg, if they find out? Deferred expulsion. If you don't pass all your classes or fuck up again, you're out. So how is getting the school served going to naturally be treated?
I go to class 3 miles away. The liquor store is 2 miles, and the convenience store is 2 miles. The grocery store is 5 miles away, so I'd use 2 miles worth of gas to get groceries.
I'd assume many, many people have the same situation, especially in cities. How much of that 8 mile reserve do you think the car uses when stopped in city traffic? I'd assume just enough to power the electronics.
Eight miles is no damn holy grail, but it's a baby step! Don't even think of expecting any more. Bush is pushing E85, where's YOUR nearest E85 pump?
You're right. Universities are not supposed to be in a position where they need to discipline students.
They are, however, forced there by parents. I'm an RA at an off-campus housing project. We just finished sealing the parking lots and driveways, and I can guarantee to you that on the night of move-in day, I will be picking at least one 18 year old kid off the pavement that he has just stained with his blood and vomit. I'll have to key-in to at least one bedroom to return a beligerent, drunk teenager to his correct bedroom. And, if last year was any sign, I'll be sending at least one or two kids off to jail because they just couldn't resist pulling the (inked) fire alarm.
And let this continue for the entire year. I had a girl last year who was great, until her 3 other roommates went home for the weekend. She decided that that was the time to have 40+ straight-from-the-ghetto kids come over and snort coke all over every flat surface of the apartment, feed beer to her roommate's fish, and eat them out of house and home.
I had a kid launch an unopened beer can at me from a third floor balcony on move-in day, showering me in beer. I've had streakers. I've had people who were hallucinating, thinking their faces had melted off. I've had people put on helmets, and plow through the plastic fencing that keeps them from falling down the hill. I've seen kids slam into a living room wall, only to land inside the bathroom by breaking through both sheetrock walls. I've been punched in the face before for breaking up fights between drunk, coked out kids. I've seen kids who hang lights and other objects from their 100+GPM sprinkler heads. I - and probably 10 others - have been shot at by Daisy pellet guns. They dent the steel fire doors. Some kids have illegal pets, and since they don't want to get caught with their dog, they pick the lock to one of the vacant bedrooms in their apartment, and let the dog go to the bathroom all over it, just picking up the shit every once in a while. This isn't even a complete list!
And the best part? When they get a lease violation and get fined, their parents always call. "Oh, my son is never bad! He wouldn't do that!" - Always works out best when I know who gave them the fine. So sure, acting as Mommy and Daddy might not be part of the University's mission, but its one role they must play. In loco parentis? Fuck yeah. This place makes Animal House look like a monestary.
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Priceless. I caught a girl looking in the general direction of the camera, so I centered it on her. She turned around and started walking away, so I panned the camera to follow her. Sure made her hurry up!
Because the Lithium Ion battery contains... HAZardous MATerials?
No no, no indoctrination here. I don't hand out underages, it's not my job. If a cop asks me if I carded people at a party, I say no, I'm not law enforcement. Hell, the only way I'll bust up a party is if bottles are getting winged off a balcony or other ridiculous stuff like that.
Now, walking 20 deep across the parking lot all carrying beers? I'm going to tell you chug or dump, because otherwise, the undercover liquor control guys are going to join your group, follow you to the party, and then fry everyone with open container, underage drinking, and unlicensed sales if they're charging. It's not my job to enforce liquor laws, but walking around with an open container gives the cops REAL good probable cause to walk into the party.
And don't think all the RAs act as if they're in an "elite group" - I spend my nights on duty hitting up anything going on in the buildings I'm in charge of just to make sure that the RESIDENTS are happy - most of MY problem is random townies and dorm kids coming up and trashing the place. Now, the reason that law is there probably isn't to protect you, but walking with a backpack full of beer to a party is a damn sight better than walking with an open bottle and chugging on it as you walk!
So don't violate the open container law! What's the BEST way to let the cops know where everyone is underage drinking? Oh, yeah, walking in there 20 deep with open cans of beer. That law is there to protect you. If a bunch of kids walk in with backpacks full of beer on, a cop can't come up and bust your "study party" - but he sure is gonna take a visit if you walked in open beer and all!
It's fuckin' freshman move in day... and I'm on duty.
Dude, you think you could sling code with all them titties dancin' in your face all day? I mean, one or two pairs of bouncing boobies is OK, but once you start adding "pasties and leather" to the block list, it's just going to be impossible. For me, anyway. What were we talking about? brb, yo.
Not necessarily. My grandmother still gets the phone bill in my grandfather's name, and my grandfather is still listed in the phonebook. I've never met the man - he was dead 20 years before I was born, and I'm 21 years old.
There is a word for what AT&T is part of, and it's called an oligopoly. Very few large players control the market. I cannot go out, buy some antennas, a tower, and a telephone switch and start providing cellular service because, well, for one, the price of the licenses, and for two, the fact that there's only 7 of them. There are 2 900MHz licenses per zone, and one of them originally went automatically to the landline provider. IIRC, there's only 5 PCS (1900MHz) licenses per zone. In my zone, Cingular has licenses in both 900MHz and 1900MHz.
And if we're going to use your terminology for monopoly, Microsoft is not one either. They control most of the market, but there are other viable options.
If Verizon, Sprint/Nextel, and AT&T decided tomorrow that cellular service cost $1 per minute, what would anyone be able to do about it? Use Edge Wireless, use Alltel? Some other local provider? Yeah, right. If the big three decided to do that, they'd also decide all the little guys couldn't roam on their networks (Ask T-Mobile how that agreement with Cingular worked out!)
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Man, as a motorcyclist, and as the son of another bike rider who was almost killed by a drunk driver, I agree with a lot of what you said. However, I think the GPP is right in calling out the DUI system.
I'm 21, 152 lbs. According to the BAC charts, and a commercial, non-court-admissible breathalyzer, my legal driving limit is about 4 beers. At that point, I probably can detect the fact that I have consumed alcohol, but the effects would not be much more. I do believe that "Impairment Begins at the First Drink", but an 8 hour work day would be more impairment than 4 beers.
So who here thinks that the US 0.08 limit is even accurate for "drunk driving"
According to the weight charts, if I drink 4 beers in an hour, I'm over the limit. Sorry, but 4 beers doesn't make me drunk or even really buzzed. If they decide I'm drunk, it should be because I can't walk a straight line or because I can't stand on one leg for more than 10 seconds or so, not because some percentage of the population that weighs 150 can't drive after less than a 6 pack!
I mean above water. Below water, your body's "diving reflex" kicks in, lowering your metabolism and hence, oxygen usage. So even though you can hold your breath for 4 minutes while diving, you probably wouldn't be able to do it as long above water doing something that burned a similar amount of energy.
Ah yes, most people can hold their breath for longer than 15 seconds - under water. The human body has a reflex that puts the body in energy-saving mode when submerged. How long can you just plain hold your breath?
I'm a Human Development major. At my school, out of a few hundred in the major, I'm one of probably 5 guys.
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There's a reason for all the girls in psych - you wanna work with crazy little kids all day? Didn't think so. (I'm going to work with the kids who shoot at each other while shooting up with the other hand. No crazies for me.) Oh, and not only that, but people ALREADY don't like social workers taking their kids, but a female social worker is a little less likely to get socked in the face by the abusive father!
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Funny thing about radios with channels blocked - US scanners skip over the 900MHz portion of the spectrum that used to carry AMPS cell service. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to change em back! =)
Don't underestimate the car company's efforts to limit us! Of course, limiting a person's understanding of a machine in which even the smallest parts can been seen and manipulated by a person without the need of a SEM is a little bit harder, and government mandates make sure that there is at least a standard method to getting diagnostic info from the engine computer, car companies such as BMW sign the software in ROM, and design the CPU/microcontroller to not run unsigned code or fuel mappings. I don't know how it works, but you would need something that had the same effect as an xbox modchip.
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Other manufacturers don't have the same protection, and even if they do, there is an open source design available, called MegaSquirt. (And that's the second time I got to throw that in there this week! No, I don't use it. Ford's EEC-V is pretty well understood and works fine
What does this have to do with copies?
Oh, right, yeah. I forgot. Even though all the modchip does is let me use my hardware the way i want it to, its only use MUST be piracy!
Guess I better stop using XBMC and start just copying moviez and gamez!
I bought a 30" Sanyo HT30746 HDTV for $450. It upconverts all inputs to 1080i, and accepts any input from NTSC on up. In order to hook up my cable box, I plugged an HDMI cable into one end of the cable box, the other into the television, and then ran an optical cable from the AUDIO OUT on the television to my surround amp. The cable box transmits the picture ratio too, so all I do is turn the television on and turn the input to HDMI. I don't need to say widescreen/normal pillarbox/stretched or any of that.
It is, however, a CRT: The geometry is not perfect, and if you adjust it to perfect, something moves the earth's magnetic belts or something and throws it back out (2mm trapezoid from top left to tom right). It's also kinda huge, but not really any bigger than a DLP.
39MHz, 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5.4GHz unlicensed bands not enough for you?
Ah, right. Too congested. Well, that's what happens when you, you know, take away the licenses for monopolistic use!
Pfft. Who needs proprietary EEC operating systems? Or operating environments, for that matter! Next, I'll open source my cat!
Your an IT guide by trade, and you don't find OBD-II to be a huge benefit?
Well, with a decent scanner, anyway. =) My old man can't ever figure out what's wrong on a newer car, but 20 minutes and a scanner usually suffice, even without a CEL!
You're right, it's never going to end, and I wouldn't say I'm never a part in the shenanigans. But you know what my school's response is to someone getting busted for a keg, if they find out? Deferred expulsion. If you don't pass all your classes or fuck up again, you're out. So how is getting the school served going to naturally be treated?
Your DD Form 214 is in the mail.
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It wouldn't?
I live 50 feet from work. Fifty feet.
I go to class 3 miles away. The liquor store is 2 miles, and the convenience store is 2 miles. The grocery store is 5 miles away, so I'd use 2 miles worth of gas to get groceries.
I'd assume many, many people have the same situation, especially in cities. How much of that 8 mile reserve do you think the car uses when stopped in city traffic? I'd assume just enough to power the electronics.
Eight miles is no damn holy grail, but it's a baby step! Don't even think of expecting any more. Bush is pushing E85, where's YOUR nearest E85 pump?
You're right. Universities are not supposed to be in a position where they need to discipline students.
They are, however, forced there by parents. I'm an RA at an off-campus housing project. We just finished sealing the parking lots and driveways, and I can guarantee to you that on the night of move-in day, I will be picking at least one 18 year old kid off the pavement that he has just stained with his blood and vomit. I'll have to key-in to at least one bedroom to return a beligerent, drunk teenager to his correct bedroom. And, if last year was any sign, I'll be sending at least one or two kids off to jail because they just couldn't resist pulling the (inked) fire alarm.
And let this continue for the entire year. I had a girl last year who was great, until her 3 other roommates went home for the weekend. She decided that that was the time to have 40+ straight-from-the-ghetto kids come over and snort coke all over every flat surface of the apartment, feed beer to her roommate's fish, and eat them out of house and home.
I had a kid launch an unopened beer can at me from a third floor balcony on move-in day, showering me in beer. I've had streakers. I've had people who were hallucinating, thinking their faces had melted off. I've had people put on helmets, and plow through the plastic fencing that keeps them from falling down the hill. I've seen kids slam into a living room wall, only to land inside the bathroom by breaking through both sheetrock walls. I've been punched in the face before for breaking up fights between drunk, coked out kids. I've seen kids who hang lights and other objects from their 100+GPM sprinkler heads. I - and probably 10 others - have been shot at by Daisy pellet guns. They dent the steel fire doors. Some kids have illegal pets, and since they don't want to get caught with their dog, they pick the lock to one of the vacant bedrooms in their apartment, and let the dog go to the bathroom all over it, just picking up the shit every once in a while. This isn't even a complete list!
And the best part? When they get a lease violation and get fined, their parents always call. "Oh, my son is never bad! He wouldn't do that!" - Always works out best when I know who gave them the fine. So sure, acting as Mommy and Daddy might not be part of the University's mission, but its one role they must play. In loco parentis? Fuck yeah. This place makes Animal House look like a monestary.
Why don't you think the computer had logs? I mean, Colin Powell says Iraq has WMDs, but that doesn't make it true!
Yes, I just invoked Godwin's Law Junior.